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No one is bulletproof against a state-sponsored attacker. But the gap between 'vulnerable' and 'defenseless' is enormous. Continuous monitoring. Automated policy enforcement. Threat detection that runs before the transaction lands. You need people whose full-time job is this. Build that team in-house, or work with one that already exists.

@croll83 @axelar That was me bro 🤣

Personal story about the rsETH hack. DevCon Bangkok, 2025. while waiting for the famous session by Justin Drake i met Jeff from @axelar and we started chatting about my past experience on Linea. Always fan of their approach, the way axelar was managing the Linea nodes for validation and the pressure they were putting on the team to implement the 'finality flag' was impressive to me. Our tech team was like 'it's super difficult to implement this properly without trusting the sequencer, and we have other priorities on the prover and the constraints', but they were there pinging us every week almost. Many colleagues were like 'this is overengineered'. It was not. We started chatting about this, i share my compliments to the team because of their security first approach but we started talking about the differences between zk rollups and optimistic rollups. my point was that zk were superior because of fast finality (24hours at that time) vs optimistic and he kept pushing me on the fact that this was not true. @DeclanFox14 joined us on the chat and both of us were not able to convince him about the opposite. His arguments were super on point: if you have a reorg or a forged tx, we (axelar node operators) catch it because we run multiple L2 nodes, so we don't need to wait for the finality on the L1, we just look at the quorum of our own nodes and op stack can't reorg by nature. The paradox was that, in their eyes, the security model of optimistic rollup was exactly the same of zk rollups if not better (as not having the finality tag, bridge operations were delayed by 24/32 hrs or fully trusting the sequencer). both me and Declan were like 'hmmm we can only agree to disagree here'. Then the room's door opened and our short debate ended. looking at that convo now, this hack is a proof that me and Declan were totally right. thack would not have been possible if the DVN had waited for L1 finality, which is not viable for optimistic rollup because of the 7days challenge period. Today the landscape is evolved a lot: zkVMs, fast and cheap provers, mega blobs. You could have zk L2s finalizing every hour on L1s without issues, economically viable. There is no excuse to keep treating the same way optimistic rollup and zk rollup. This hack demonstrated that finality is still king. I think everyone should include finality in their risk assessments (with direct monetary consequences for TVL and yields) and optimistic rollups should become zk rollups or pay a big tax in term of UX (or TVL/yield). Of course, nobody is talking about this as there is no real incentive for L2 operators. Also, this will not fix the main crypto issue: there are no users anymore.

I had the chance to catch up with the @avantprotocol team yesterday, and man, there was a lot I didn't know: ⇒ Like most robust stablecoin protocols, they're using both @HypernativeLabs and @pagerduty ⇒ They're also using @trailofbits for OpSec auditing ⇒ They use @zeroshadow_io for threat response ⇒ They get access to above-market yields by providing sticky liquidity to teams like Ethena and Syrup ⇒ They DON'T use the usual yield passthrough mechanism, instead all of the yield from the unstaked avUSD goes into a reserve which acts as a super junior tranche that would take first losses before avUSDx ⇒ That reserve currently has ~1.3M in it (covering up to a 1% loss in NAV) ⇒ They've been profitable since month 2 (which is wild in DeFi) In short, they're actually doing way more for risk mitigation than I'd thought, and their strategies (which are still remarkably conservative on the USD side) are fully transparent. They are still in S1, and rumors are that they're targeting a mid Q2 TGE. While I absolutely cannot and would never guarantee the safety of a stablecoin protocol, I will say they appear to be one of the good ones, genuinely trying to maximize risk mitigation while squeezing the most yield out of conservative strategies. Very cool.

Millions were extracted from onchain ecosystem participants because of a single privileged minting key. The reason we haven’t just thrown up a vault to attract deposits is because we take risk management seriously. We independently underwrite protocol and smart contract risk and work with best-in-class partners where we want to leverage expertise. This is why we partnered with @HypernativeLabs for real-time threat detection from day one. Why our vault architecture will enforce collateral and depositor controls at the smart contract level. Institutional grade means the security stack is built before the first dollar of TVL, not after the postmortem. OpSec controls like key signing, key rotation, real-time monitoring, and qualified custody. These aren’t features. They’re table stakes @birchhill_io

@janesh_dani Truly cooking ser

We have been cooking for really long to bring all the best ones together.

🔒 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐫. 🔒 Enterprise-grade transaction security is a must when operating on-chain. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫. Bringing @HypernativeLabs Guardian’s insights into @safe helps teams catch those small moments before they turn into real losses. It supports a more thoughtful approach to capital protection across treasuries, trading, and operational flows. More details are in the announcement below. If you want to learn how this applies to your workflow, let’s talk. #blockchain #multisig #cybersecurity #opsec #tokenization #stablecoin #defi #ethereum

The new Project Guardian white paper was just unveiled at #SingaporeFinTechFestival. Axelar, @MAS_sg, @Citi, @DeutscheBank, @Fidelity, @FTI_Global, @swiftcommunity + others show what real institutional tokenization looks like 👇

.@SuiNetwork combines performance, accessibility, and the strength of Move. Today, it becomes even more secure with Hypernative. Hypernative's real-time threat prevention, transaction simulation, and automated risk mitigation platform is being integrated into the Sui ecosystem 🤝 Read more on our blog: buff.ly/K0cDFJ0

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🌐 Heading to Seoul for #KBW? The Hypernative team will be on the ground to connect, share, and explore the future of secure digital assets. Catch our sales team — @Junoonchain, @satoslim_X, and @AkandSitra — throughout the week. Reach out to book a chat or just say hi 👋

@yorgosv_ Lets go #XRP army

Axelar will soon enable new yield sources for $XRP. Imagine capturing USD-denominated yield from Ethereum or Solana, which is used to buy more XRP and subsequently distributed as XRP-denominated yield to XRP holders. An XRP infinite money glitch! This opportunity will only be open to non-US holders. More to be announced very soon!

🧵1/6 A core part of the Strobe infrastructure is the unique cross-chain architecture. Functioning on the XRPL with the tools of the EVM Sidechain. This is made possible by our colleagues at @axelar, the decentralized network building towards not just a cross-chain future, but a multi-chain one.

@0xPortola @coinbase OG slick master 😎

2013 -> learned about bitcoin in history of money+banking class in college 2014 -> start consulting job in SF. president of @coinbase comes to give talk at our weekly lunch and learn to group of five 21 yo associates. Gives us sign up code for Coinbase. Buy 1 BTC. Sell at 100% gain. Treated myself to few weeks of guac with my daily chipotle dinner. Feeling high on life 2014-2017 -> golden years of crypto in SF. Meet early teams building 0x, Augur, Litecoin. Energy was palpable 2017-> get pulled into ICO summer, big in supply chain coins. Began to question why I was working corporate job. Roundtrip entire bag 2019 -> read @compoundfinance whitepaper, get back in 2020 -> finish grad school. Join first job in crypto. Crazy experience, story for another time. Defi summer vibes insane, farming yams 2021 -> bought many NFTs. Still holding. It's not a loss if you never sell 2022 -> Join 2nd project, reaches ~top 60ish at peak 2025 -> on sabbatical. @ItsAlwaysZonny and @sinitias reach out. Wanting to feel something. Join @initia. Having a good time. Feels like 2013 again.

@arthur0x jus go to the international (not the EU one) automated lane using biometrics, then still get yourself stamped

Once again of the greatness of Singapore that we can go through the airport customs in less than 1 min. Compared to the routine 30 - 60mins wait to go through European customs.

Yesterday, $100M in value was bridged to the new XRPL chain, XRPL EVM. The assets bridged were from two major yield bearing stablecoins protocols, @MidasRWA and @falconfinance! All gas on XRPL EVM is paid in XRP, meaning growth of the network benefits XRP 🙌

@Zac_Pundi @axelar @BNBCHAIN @PundiAI @squidrouter @ecdsafu @DYOR_WAGMI @nickpayiatis Thanks for the shout out ser

@axelar @BNBCHAIN @PundiAI @squidrouter We've chosen @axelar after comparing various options, the @squidrouter frontend that directly supports ITS is also real sleek. Since launch two weeks ago, #PUNDIX $6M in volume has passed through the bridge. @ecdsafu @DYOR_WAGMI @nickpayiatis Shawn, Alice

1-click bridging to Ethereum & @BNBCHAIN. @PundiAI is now live on @squidrouter - powered by Axelar. DeFi just got a whole lot more user‑friendly.

@9oelM @axelar you might want to check this out! docs.axelar.dev/dev/gas-servic…

For ex i send XRP thru @axelar and part of it is used as a gas for the tx. And it seems that you use a price feed from somewhere to calc how much that XRP is in AXL. But hows that exactly being done?? I dont know an answer myself so im asking here 😅

Yo @DYOR_WAGMI @satoslim_X do you have an engineer from @axelar who can answer the qs from my session at @xrplapex? Basically the guy was asking what price feed it is using for converting any sent token to AXL. But Axelar docs doesn’t really answer this qs.

@0xSireal @xrplapex @axelar @HugoPhilion @FlareNetworks @rachit @wormhole Nail on the head 💪

@xrplapex @axelar @HugoPhilion @FlareNetworks @satoslim_X @rachit @wormhole been saying this ; interop won’t scale till it stops being a dev headache infra needs to feel invisible. like… just works. big respect to @axelar and the rest for pushing convo past just “bridges” we need systems, not silos.

How do we accelerate interoperability? 🔀 @HugoPhilion (@FlareNetworks), @satoslim_X (@axelar), and @rachit (@wormhole) dive into solving cross-chain fragmentation.